Quotes About Kindness

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle." Philo of Alexandria (circa 20 BC–AD 50) PHILOSOPHER

Expresar gratitud es cortés y agradable, promulgar la gratitud es generoso y noble, pero vivir la gratitud es tocar el Cielo." JOHANNES A. GAERTNER (1912–1996) PROFESOR, TEÓLOGO, POETA A

Joy attracts more joy. Happiness attracts more happiness. Peace attracts more peace. Gratitude attracts more gratitude. Kindness attracts more kindness. Love attracts more love.

Gratitude makes relationships flourish. As you increase your gratitude for any relationship, you will magically receive an abundance of happiness and good things in that relationship. And gratitude for your relationships doesn't change only your relationships; it also changes you. No matter what your temperament is now, gratitude will give you more patience, understanding, compassion, and kindness, to the point where you won't even recognize yourself.

you judge someone and think they are bad, you are not giving love. And in thinking that someone else

Extend to each person, no matter how trivial the contact, all the care and kindness and understanding and love that you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. (Og Mandino 1923-1996)

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a Love like that! It lights the whole sky." Hafez (1315-1390) SUFI POET

you can. Love everyone you can. Focus only on things you love, feel love, and you will experience that love and joy coming back to you – multiplied!

Do you treat yourself the way you want other people to treat you?

Every man knows that when his wife is appreciating him for the little things that he does, what does he want to do? He wants to do more. It's always about appreciation. It pulls things in. It attracts support.

Love everything you can. Love everyone you can. Focus only on things you love, feel love, and you will experience that love and joy coming back to you—multiplied!

Giving opens up the door to receiving. Give kind words. Give a smile. Give appreciation and love. There are so many opportunities for you to give and thereby open the door to receiving.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment. (Lao Tzu Circa 6th Century BC)

When you are feeling joy you don't even have to think about giving. It is a natural overflow.

When the world has gone mad, we must help each other when we can.

How quickly life can change. Well, maybe it was time that it changed again. I was in a beautiful place, staying with a kind woman, and I was going to enjoy myself, whatever the outcome was.

had come to help. He just

When the world has gone mad, we must help each other when we can. Most of my neighbours are good and share what little they have.

It's not her fault she can't cook." "You are too nice natured, darling. You won't get anywhere in this world being kind and generous. You must turn into a lioness like me and gobble up people who disagree with you." "I'm not very good at gobbling," I said. "And I want to like people, and be liked by them." She sighed. "The sooner you get married and have babies to adore the better.

searched for clues and fingerprints. But I will be kind to

When the world has gone mad, we must help each other when we can. Most of my neighbours are good and share what little they have. When Benito snared a rabbit, he gave us some of it to make the good broth you are eating. And when I came home this morning, I passed Signora Gucci and she saw the mushrooms I had found.

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're on the wrong side of the argument.

It might not seem like much, but what most people don't get is that there's a world of difference between not being cruel and being kind.

I did not demand that the crows be like me, that their minds resemble my own: I simply cared for them. Why should I base my level of care and concern for them on how much like me they were, rather than loving them for what they were? That I should love only those that resembled myself, and neglect those who lived in other worlds, going about their other lives, seemed absurd to me. Arrogant. I cared for all.